Author's Notes: Hey everyone! Thanks for waiting oh so patiently for this next chapter to come out! I've been really busy writing chapter 7 for my friend's story "The Three Crazy Peeps Met The Fellowship" and not to mention, I've been busy at school with homework. On the 4th day of school we had homework! Oh well, that's the price I gotta pay for being an complete idiot in math and a "genius" in Lang. Arts. -mutters- stuuupid honors class.

Chapter 8: Behind Enemy Lines

Somewei

Bubbles held her breath as she entered the palace. She feared that the Doom Girls would hear her and lead her into a trap. The blonde knew that if Daisy, Dandy and Dawn were like Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup then they too would have super hearing, and that was what scared her the most. The Doom Girls led Bubbles into what looked like a control room. Bubbles bit her bottom lip when she noticed Ivy standing there waiting for the girls. Beside her was Aaron and Ace.

"Girls, welcome back. Did you get rid of those annoying puffs?" Ivy questioned immediately. Daisy walked an inch ahead of her sisters and stared straight into Ivy's piercing green eyes, not even afraid.

"We only KO'ed them," Daisy answered shortly. Ivy raised an eyebrow as she looked at the stronger replica of Blossom. She really wasn't in the mood to figure out what Daisy meant and decided to ask what she meant.

"KO'ed?" She asked.

"Knocked out. Anyway, we won't "get rid of them" until you tell us what your plan is once they're gone. I want to know if we're going to help you," Daisy snapped. Ivy thought that it was only fair and decided to tell them. Little did any of them know, Bubbles was listening eagerly. All the blonde wanted to do was figure out their next move and tell her sisters.

"Fine," She heard Ivy say. "What I plan to do is once the PPG is gone, my strategy is to make universal domination. With the greatest heroes like Major Glory cowering at the sound of my name and the only three heroes - or heroines - courageous enough to face me are gone, I shall have no problem at all. Now that the Rowdyruff Boys broke their pathetic little code they pose as a problem. So, I decided to take control of them."

"How so?" Dandy asked as she raised an eyebrow interested in Ivy's plan.

"Let me worry about that; I know exactly what I'm doing," Ivy paused. "Your objective at the moment is making sure those girls don't get in my way."

"So you plan to take control of the Rowdyruff Boys . What do you plan to use them for?" Dawn asked curiously as both green eyes stared straight into each other.

"Simple: Trick the puffs and have the RRB lure the girls to you," Ivy said with a little chuckle; pleased with her plan. Bubbles bit her bottom lip so hard that it began to bleed. She knew that she would need to relay this information to her sisters and the boys.

Blossom paced the floor as she tried to block out the noise of the boys and Buttercup arguing about where Bubbles was. Blossom knew where Bubbles was, they just needed a plan to get into the palace. The yelling was starting to get to Blossom as the shouting matches continued.

"Shut it, all of you!" Blossom yelled. The Rowdyruff Boys and Buttercup looked at Blossom, somewhat startled with Blossom's sudden outburst. "We need to get to Bubbles and fast. This isn't a problem on where she is; she is where the Doom Girls would go - Ivy's place. What we need to do is plan how to get inside the palace."

Brick agreed with Blossom as he listened to his counterpart speak. She made complete sense seeing how Ivy created the Doom Girls and going to her place made sense. His brothers and himself went to Mojo's after their first fight against the girls. Buttercup and Butch didn't listen on the other hand. Instead, they began arguing over how they were going to break in. Out of all the teenagers there, Boomer seemed to be the only quiet one.

He was confused at the moment. He was deeply concerned for Bubbles well being, but it wasn't an older brother concern. It was more like a boyfriend concern, and that scared Boomer. He always thought of Bubbles as a friend and never really was attracted to her and this sudden feeling of protectiveness came to him as a shock. Blossom and Brick seemed to notice his silence, but neither made a big deal of it and Boomer was thankful for it.

Bubbles back up slowly as Ivy and the Doom Girls continued their talk. She wanted to get out of the palace and get back to her sisters. Not only was she nervous about being in her enemies place, but she knew that this whole sneaking around thing wasn't her and she felt scared of being caught. Bubbles silently got up from the floor and turned around, but what she found was that she was standing face-to-face with Princess, Sedusa and HIM.

"Uh oh," Bubbles murmured as her blue eyes widen in fear.

"Well, look who it is, miss Bubbles Utonium. I'm wondering how you got in here," Princess commented mockingly when she noticed Bubbles fear. "Get her and let's go show Ivy what we have."

Sedusa and HIM obediently grabbed Bubbles arms and dragged her inside the control room again. Ivy noticed the three villains come in. She was about to yell at them for disturbing her, but when she noticed Bubbles, she smiled evilly. Daisy, Dandy and Dawn turned around and they too noticed the captured heroine.

"Well," Ivy began. "Miss Utonium. Pleased to see that you've joined us."

"Yeah, well, I'm not, you old witch," Bubbles snapped, but decided that insulting Ivy probably would get her nowhere but further into trouble. Ivy frowned as she pushed passed the Doom Girls and stood in front of Bubbles. Bubbles gulped and tried to sallow her fear. The blonde knew that this was Ivy's way of trying to intimidate her, and Bubbles told herself not to let the evil woman get to her.

"I may be a witch, but I am nowhere being old," Ivy snapped angrily as she glared into Bubbles blue eyes. Ivy lifted her hands and thick chains shot out of her palms. Shocked with the sudden movement, Bubbles hardly had time to react before the chains started to snake their way around Bubbles. The chains tied Bubbles' ankles together and made her tumble to the floor. Ivy smiled in satisfaction as she turned her attention to Princess, Sedusa and HIM. "Take her to the prison compartment, and be ready for her sisters and the RRB."

The three nodded as they lifted Bubbles up from the ground. Aaron watched silently as the girl he was attracted to was carried out as a Prisoner of War. He sighed as he waited for Ivy to leave with the Doom Girls so he could move again.

"Keep low," Blossom ordered as they approached Ivy's palace. The others seemed convinced that Bubbles wasn't captured yet, but something told Blossom that they would have to perform a rescue mission. Blossom slowed down as she steadily flew side by side with Brick. She looked at him as she spoke, "Can you hold the guards off while Buttercup and I sneak into the palace?"

"Yeah, sure," Brick agreed and then turned to give the orders to Butch and Boomer. The boys accepted the mission without hesitation thrilled to have some action in a long time. Buttercup and Blossom could tell that the boys had been itching for a fight for a long time. Once they approached their destination, the boys immediately dove into action, covering the girls as both crept into the building unnoticed; or so they thought. From the control room, Ivy sneered as she noticed the blonde's two sisters approaching. She turned around and found Aaron behind her. She looked at him straight in the eye, which caused Aaron to stiffen in fear.

"You, go get the blonde up here and do it quickly! Her sisters are here," Ivy barked. Aaron scrambled out of the room in a hurry to get to the prison cells. Meanwhile, as Aaron ran down the halls, Blossom and Buttercup were climbing up the steps that led to the Control Room and to the Prison Compartment.

"Blossom, why can't we use our super powers again?" Buttercup whined for the third time. Blossom rolled her eyes as she listened to her sister complain about how there were so many steps to climb and that they should just use their superpowers.

"I've told you, it's because we don't want Ivy to know that we're here," Blossom explained. Buttercup rolled her eyes and muttered something about, 'Ivy probably already knows we are.' The black-haired girl and the redheaded leader ran up the stairs at human speed beating the Olympics World Record.

Bubbles sighed heavily as she looked outside the barred prison window. She felt like a failure with her hands and feet chained up to an incredibly strong chain, and with the knowledge she had that she could pass along to Blossom. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back. In the silence, she heard a faint whisper that only she could hear.

I hope Bubbles is alright…

Bubbles looked up and searched for the source of the voice. She knew that voice. It was Boomer's, but what was Boomer doing here in prison? When she had left, she remembered seeing Boomer knocked out. The blue puff was slightly freaked out, and the continuing whispers she began to hear didn't help soothe her fear.

Leader Girl better know what she's doing…

Buttercup's voice.

I hope we save her on time…

Blossom's.

C'mon, you wanna challenge me? Go right ahead…

Butch's.

Blossom, you better make this quick. My brothers and I can't cover you for long…

Brick.

Bubbles chewed on her bottom and closed her eyes as thousands of whispers flooded the room overwhelming to poor teenager. Half of the voices she didn't know and the other half scared her. She couldn't take the whispers anymore and Bubbles screamed out.

"Bubbles, you okay?" asked a voice. Bubbles gasped and looked up and found Aaron looking at the heroine oddly. Bubbles sighed in relief seeing that the voice was actually real. Bubbles shook her head slowly, still confused by the sudden whispers. Aaron shrugged as he began to unlock the cell door. "Okay."

Aaron opened the door and unlocked the lock that kept Bubbles connected to the wall and started to lead her out of her cell. Bubbles finally regained her composure and was puzzled with what was happening. The whispers seemed to have silence because Bubbles no longer heard them.

The villain led the puff down the hall and toward the Control Room again. Once they had entered, Bubbles glanced at Ivy and found her looking out the window, teeth gritted and hands clenched into fists. The blonde was quickly chained to the wall and Aaron stepped back to wait for further instructions from his leader. Ivy sighed as she put her hands behind her back.

"Aaron, you're dismissed," Ivy said calmly. Aaron nodded once before he briskly made his exit out of the room. There was an uncomfortable silence between the two females before Ivy spoke again, "You're sisters are on their way here, but don't get any ideas of escaping. I'm positive you heard my little scheme."

Bubbles kept silent, not wanting to answer in fear of saying the wrong thing that could possibly get her and her sisters in further trouble. As if on cue, Blossom and Buttercup burst through the doors, ready to fight. Ivy noticed this and began to laugh uncontrollably. Bubbles looked at her sisters and saw that both looked slightly oblivious to what was happening and yet somehow offended.

"You actually think that you can defeat me?" Ivy said between laughs. Buttercup smirked as she looked at her enemy.

"Hell ya," Buttercup said, but Blossom on the other hand had doubts. They were the same strength since last time they fought Ivy, and she knew they wouldn't make a difference. Ivy seemed to know the same thing to because she took one look at Buttercup and broke out in laughter again.

"Very funny, Sedusa, Princess! Chain them up next to their precious sister! We'll let me have a small family reunion before the real fun begins," Ivy said. Blossom and Buttercup looked behind them and found the two female villains standing in front of them before they were snatched. Both villainess' dragged the two other puffs and chained them up next to the blue Powerpuff Girl.

"Ivy, we have them," said a voice over an intercom. Ivy smiled as she pressed a button and answered back.

"Excellent, bring them in," She ordered. The Powerpuff Girls listened carefully and wondered whom they were talking about. Blossom and Bubbles feared that it may be the Rowdyruff Boys, but Buttercup looked confident that it wasn't…but she was wrong.

Daisy, Dandy and Dawn came into the room with Brick, Butch and Boomer in their hands completely knocked out. The girls gasped once they set their eyes on their allies, but Ivy enjoyed the sight and smirked. She walked up to the boys and pulled out a needle. She stuck it them one-by-one and the girls saw that she was pulling out a pink substance. Blossom immediately recognized as 'Everything Nice'.

What would Everything Nice be in the boys for? She wondered. Ivy stepped back from the three and turned her attention to the girls. Buttercup, Blossom and Bubbles didn't like the grin that Ivy had plastered on her face.

"By the look on your face, Blossom. I can tell you know what it is," Ivy said.

"I don't," Bubbles muttered which caused Ivy to only smile wider.

"Then let me demonstrate," Ivy said smoothly as she motioned for the Doom Girls to step back.

Author's Notes:

Okay, I thought I'd leave it there to let you wonder what happened to the boys and what's going to happen to Bubbles. Anyway scroll down there and press the 'submit review' and review me. Okay…and sorry for not updating sooner.

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Starship Gazer: Good job! Ya stayed tune! Thank you for the review.

Angel-Bratt44: Hey Nicole, thanks for the review as usual. 'Nicole Day'…lol. The things people come up with….

Hairy Gregory: huggles the RRB Yes, thank God the boys were there when the fight took place Huggles Brick Fearless Leader here ordered that they go and save the girls! Lol. No sleep? I've had my days were I stood up for 24 hours. From 6 am on Tuesday to 6 am on Wednesday. Horrible, and I had to go to school the next day! Ugh…anyway, thanks for the review.

Thanks again everyone….See ya…

Somewei